· Private foundation
D Squared Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BPS Foundation | $250,000 |
| BPS Foundation | $250,000 |
| Green Oceans | $50,000 |
| Community Roots Charter School | $50,000 |
| Notre Dame High School | $47,750 |
| Rosie's Place | $40,000 |
| Newtowne School Incorporated | $30,000 |
| Tabernacle Learning Center Inc | $29,000 |
| Notre Dame High School | $25,000 |
| Child & Family Services of Newport County | $13,073 |
| Child & Family Services of Newport County | $10,000 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | $10,000 |
| Child & Family Services of Newport County | $6,644 |
| IYRS School of Technology and Trades | $6,565 |
| Child & Family Services of Newport County | $5,607 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +50%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $201k · revenue +75%
- TLTabernacle Learning Center Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SCSt Columba's Historic Preservation Fundone grant, 2023 · $200k
PRESERVE RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -75%- FOFriends of Florenceone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Bargello Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Tabernacle Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BARGELLO INC ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds Green Oceans ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWNE SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds IOLA Foundation ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MONMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chances Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Gruben Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization D Squared Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.